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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
10
At the Hotel Somerset last night the Guild of the Infant Saviour staged living portraits, turning paintings into living flesh. Several hundred prominent guests attended the ballroom exhibition, praising the guild members for their performance in the reversible art display.
In a silt framed stage a cohort of well known girls and women posed as Delacroix Reynolds and other masters. Miss Mildred Melzian and others embodied portraits with lifelike flesh and glistening eyes. The evening featured many noted recreations and group tableaux directed by Mrs. Addie R Penn.
Mrs. Colin W. MacDonald directed the music arrangements while Mrs. C. G. Flynn led the coordinating committee. She was helped by Mrs. W. W. Taff, Miss R. E. Nawn, Mrs. William P. Deroy, Miss J. C. Prendergast, Miss M. A. Corcoran and Mrs. J. I. Flanigan.
A will filed in Suffolk probate records on Nov 4 1895 bequeaths 50000 to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The codicil directs a 100000 trust for John H Dane with income to him for life and after death distributes one tenth to the Eye and War Infirmary, two tenths to Children’s Hospital, and seven tenths to Massachusetts General Hospital.
Alice Penson a 17 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Jonas Penson of 18 Grove Street Chelsea has been missing since Christmas Day. The Greater Boston police have been asked to help locate her after she went for a walk following dinner. Her parents are at a loss to explain her disappearance.
Funeral services for Daniel Hollinger aged 101 were held at his daughter Mrs Henry B. Fiske’s home in Winthrop yesterday forenoon. Rev R Perry Bush of Chelsea grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Masons Massachusetts officiated with many Masons from Winthrop Lodge and Greater Boston in attendance.
The Post Santa Claus Fund collected $2 from the Minute Men Chapter D A R via treasurer Jessie B McKay of 45 Crescent Avenue Beachmont. The fund total rises to $6957.40. One bottle of Adamson Cough Balsam is advertised as a cold remedy.
A state wide campaign to raise funds to pay off the mortgage of Beth Israel Hospital Roxbury was begun at a board meeting. Committees of prominent Jewish men and women were appointed to canvass for funds. Contributions announced include gifts from Simon Swig and others, with Auxiliaries pledging substantial totals. A banquet is planned next month to celebrate burning the mortgage.
The New England Hotel Greeters Association, about 150 members strong, gathered in Boston and Cambridge amid a snowstorm. Ivan C. Hight is expected to be reelected president at the Lenox with sessions, a banquet, and tours of local hotels and sights. A planned Brookline hotel tour was canceled due to bad weather and a Maine contingent was delayed.
William H. Smith a Boylston street "psychic" closed his business after being chased by Detective Sergeant John Anderson of the Lagrange Street station for three weeks. In court at Pemberton Square he tearfully admitted reform, pled guilty, and paid a $25 fine.
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